by Ross Petras
Myriam Diaz-Diocaretz, University of Utrecht, in her essay “Sieving the matriheritage of the sociotext,” in The Difference Within, edited by E. Meese and Alice Parker
On Wrong, the Rightness of:
Caesar did never wrong save with just cause.
William Shakespeare, in Julius Caesar, as noted in The Handybook of Literary Curiosities, by W. Walsh, 1871
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On Yes-Men and -Women
The President doesn’t want any yes-men and yes-women around him. When he says no, we all say no.
Elizabeth Dole, then assistant for public liaison to President Reagan, later Secretary of Labor under President Bush
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Ross and Kathryn Petras are writers and media junkies. When not collecting other people’s stupidities, they collect their own in a computer file slugged “Hall of Shame.”
A previous edition of this book was published in 1993 by Doubleday. It is here reprinted by arrangement with Doubleday.
The 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said. Copyright © 1993 by Ross Petras and Kathryn Petras. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. For information, address: Broadway Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 1540 Broadway, New York, NY 10036.
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First Broadway Books trade paperback edition published 2001.
The Library of Congress has cataloged previous editions of this book as follows:
Petras, Kathryn.
The 776 stupidest things ever said / Ross and Kathryn Petras.
p. cm.
1. Quotations, English. 2. Wit and humor. I. Petras, Ross.
II. Title. III. Title: Seven hundred seventy-six stupidest things ever said.
PN6081.P45 1993
082—dc20 92-31131
eISBN: 978-0-307-76462-1
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